Crown Cotton Mills [Dalton, Georgia] Oral History Tapes
Scope and Content
The collection contains oral history tapes of employees at the Crown Cotton Mills in Dalton, a textile town in the Appalachian Valley of northwest Georgia. Most of mill hands interviewed worked for Crown from the 1920s through 1960s, and all interviews were conducted by VT professor J. Douglas Flamming.
Dates
- 1984 - 1985
Language of Materials
The materials in the collection are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open to research.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
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Administrative History
Crown Cotton Mills was a textile mill in Dalton, Georgia.
Biographical History
J. Douglas Flamming was a visiting history professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1984 to 1985.
Extent
1.4 Cubic Feet (1 box)
Abstract
The collection contains oral history tapes of employees at the Crown Cotton Mills in Dalton, a textile town in the Appalachian Valley of northwest Georgia. Most of mill hands interviewed worked for Crown from the 1920s through 1960s.
Source of Acquisition
The collection was donated Special Collections and University Archives in 1988.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
The guide to the Crown Cotton Mills [Dalton, Georgia] Oral History Tapes by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).
Processing Information
The collection is unprocessed. Minimal description was completed prior to 2002.
- Title
- Crown Cotton Mills [Dalton, Georgia] Oral History Tapes, 1984-1985
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Author
- Special Collections and University Archives Staff
- Date
- 2014 (CC0 1.0)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech Repository
Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries (0434)
560 Drillfield Drive
Newman Library, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg Virginia 24061 US
540-231-6308
specref@vt.edu